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Mark Steyn

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

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This essay is adapted from Mark's book A Song For The Season:

Memorial Day in America – or, if you're a real old-timer, Decoration Day, a day for decorating the graves of the Civil War dead. The songs many of those soldiers marched to are still known today – "The Yellow Rose Of Texas", "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", "Dixie". But this one belongs in a category all its own:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored…

In 1861, the United States had nothing that was recognized as a national anthem, and, given that they were now at war, it was thought they ought to find one – a song "that would inspire Americans to patriotism and military ardor"...

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To the Slaughter

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Behold the infidels - bystanders in their own fate: Steyn on an act of savagery in a London street - and the appalling aftermath

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Is This A Republic Or Is It Not?

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(Audio) On Michael Graham's Massachusetts-based radio show on Thursday, National Review columnist Mark Steyn reacted to the treatment of Lois Lerner, the now-suspended head of the Internal Revenue Service's division on tax-exempt organizations.

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The Hugh Hewitt Show

Reaping What They've Sown...

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(Transcript) Here's the transcript from Mark's recent visit with Hugh Hewitt...

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The John Gambling Show

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(AUDIO) In his recent visit with New York's John Gambling, Mark takes on the scandals plaguing the White House and more...

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The Second Most-Admired Guy on the Right

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In John Hawkins' annual survey, Mark edges out Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz and even Jonah Goldberg for a stunning second-place finish.

 

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Waterloo

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After the disappointments of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, Mark recalls the glory days with a history lesson from Abba.

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Mission Statement

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European policy on its Muslim communities in a nutshell

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And Again...

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A French soldier is stabbed while on patrol west of Paris

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Jihad Abhors a Vacuum

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Post-9/11, we in the omniscient pundit class were all Afghan experts. Post-Boston, we are all Chechen experts. Strictly between us, I can count what I know about Chechens on one leg. A couple of years ago, while I was in Copenhagen picking up an award from the Danish Free Press Society, a one-legged Chechen prematurely self-detonated in the Hotel Jørgensen while assembling a bomb...

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Political Operative Says the Politicization of Politics Has Become Hopelessly Political

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How dare Republicans politicize the one-party state!

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Probable Cause

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Who regulates the regulators? ...

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In the wake of Louis Freeh's report on Penn State, Rand Simberg writes of Unhappy Valley's other scandal...

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